Live from GDC!

On the ground in san fran — quite a num­ber of ses­sions that I ant wait to see… a few inter­est­ing ones today, many more to come. Will try to post updates through­out the week. On a semi-related note, thanx to google for the free phone (and to the com­pany for send­ing me here so I an get a free google phone!) Con­sid­er­ing that the google phone is a third of the price to get into the con­fer­ence, its quite the ges­ture on their part.

Any­ways, if you haven’t guessed — I’m post­ing this from the phone, pretty impressed with it so far!!

More soon.

Introducing ‘Truck Off’!

Truck Off Road Rac­ing is a fast-paced 4 player rac­ing game devel­oped in GameCore in a period of approx­i­mately 2 weeks by the team at Helios Inter­ac­tive.  Includ­ing mul­ti­ple online leader­boards, 4 player  head-to-head game­play, cus­tomiz­able vehi­cles over 4 unique tracks, Truck Off brings the fun back to online racing!

We’ll still in beta test­ing of the new net­code in GameCore, but if you are inter­ested in check­ing out the game, please feel free to down­load the beta installer from the link below.  I will be writ­ing a series of tuto­ri­als / arti­cles describ­ing how the game was put together, how the new net­code works etc over the com­ing weeks (once the GDC mad­ness is over!):

Down­load Truck Off Installer

Game in a Week #1

This post marks the first of hope­fully a num­ber of ‘Game in a Week’ demo games that the team at Helios will be pro­duc­ing over the com­ing months.

There are 3 pri­mary goals of these projects:

  1. to show­case what types of games can be done with GameCore, quickly
  2. to pro­vide com­plete project tem­plates to the com­mu­nity in order to increase the num­ber of exam­ples for every­one to build upon
  3. to give our team a case of ‘eat­ing our own dog food’ so to speak, and as a result, stream­line any work­flow / process defi­cien­cies that may arise as a result.

I will be post­ing tuto­ri­als and other write­ups to show­case and cover any new fea­tures &/or inter­est­ing fea­tures that the projects may be using.  More details about this first project will be posted shortly!

On a semi-side note, we’re in the process of set­ting up a new host­ing setup for the GameCore Mas­ter Server / Hosted account ser­vices, which should be ready by the end of the week — stay tuned for more info about this as well!

Wordpress plugin upgrade error

Just an FYI for any word­press users out there — if you are get­ting an annoy­ing ‘array_keys’ error like so:

Warn­ing: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argu­ment should be an array in /path/to/mywordpressinstall/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php on line 180

when try­ing to upgrade a plu­gin, the issue is the shoddy ftp class that ships with word­press. Check this link for a patch / replace­ment php file that fixes the issue. Note that I’m using 2.9.1 and it works fine — plu­g­ins upgrade per­fectly now. Note that this class is located in wp-admin/includes

What’s the like­li­hood of this being rolled into the offi­cial WP distro?

Relaunch

Ok, so been try­ing to fig­ure out a good use for this domain for a while. I’ve been using the site of my main ‘side project’ — ie Com­bat : Spec Ops — as a pseudo-dumping ground for generic GameCore tuto­ri­als and other tips & tricks, which is fine as long as they are game-related, but have had more than a few things that i wanted to post about that are GameCore-related but don’t really fit the C:SO site. So, here we are.

In the com­ing days and weeks I’ll be post­ing any­thing GameCore-related (and/or game design related) here so I can declut­ter the C:SO site as much as pos­si­ble and keep it focused on THE GAME itself.

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